Making the claim for the “first certified SuperSpeed USB 3.0 storage devices” is Western Digital with its new My Book 3.0 external desktop hard drive. Available as standalone models or in a kit form, which includes a USB 3.0 PCIe card, these 1TB and 2TB drives promise to raise the bar for external storage transfer speeds. …

Intel wins either way

Second vote for FAIL

The main problem for USB2 is indeed the CPU killing nature of it. Any self respecting geek is already extremely well aware of that.

To do one of the first reviews of an actual in the flesh device replete with performance graphs with not even a passing mention of the CPU impact smacks of schoolboy ignorance at best, despite what some knobhead AC might think